1) Dead hand 2) French word used in English 3) Inalienable ownership 4) Real estate 5) Real property 6) Realty
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Mortmain is a legal term that refers to the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate by a corporation or legal institution; the term is usually used in the context of its prohibition. Historically, the land owner usually would be the religious office of a church; today, insofar as mortmain prohibitions against perpetual ownership still exis...
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restrictive influence of the past on the present
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• (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
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in English law, the state of land being held by the `dead hand` (French: mort main) of a corporation. In feudal days a conveyance of land to a ... [2 related articles]
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Choosing a representative's life to signal relief payment to the lord; commonly used with vassals that are organizations and long-lived races.
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Lands held by a corporate body, such as the church, in perpetual or inalienable tenure. In the Middle Ages, alienation in mortmain, usually to a church in return for a ...
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Mort'main` noun [ French
mort ,
morte , dead +
main hand; French
main-morte . See
Mortal , and
Manual .]
(Law) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate. » The term was originally applied to...
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An unlawful alienation of lands, or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of mortmain to be applied to such alienations.Mortmain ...
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n] - real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation)
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mortmain 1. The perpetual, nontransferable, and non-salable ownership of property by organizations; such as, churches. 2. The usually stultifying (being useless or worthless), or stifling (repressive), influence of the past on current events and living people. 3. The often oppressive influence of the past on the present.
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dead hand noun real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation)
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the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership. · the perpetual holding of land, esp. by a corporation or charitable trust.
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